PS2 production was months away from being shutdown and SONY didnt see a point in tabbing a few hundred k units?

There are many reasons why SONY may have opted to tap the numbers together other than "we are still trailing so we'll inflate those numbers in such ways rah rah rah"

Maybe MS would have used the same strategy, but we'll never know that since they dropped support of the original xbox without regards for the fans who purchased it now will we?!?!

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We will once the Xbox One is released. If they combine sales of Xbox 360 and the Xbox One THEN you can speculate it would have been done with Xbox and Xbox 360.

I would have figured if the PS2 was winding down in numbers into it's production end, they would just post PS3 numbers. I don't recall them combining PS1 and PS2 numbers when the PS1 was at the end of it's production run. They were always separate.

So I don't think they have the numbers yet to brag of passing the 360. When has Sony NOT bragged about passing milestones? It's always good PR... even if it's moving from 3rd place to 2nd place in a gen that's at the end of the road.

I wouldn't be surprised if the PS3 was ahead right now. But we don't have any official numbers for the debate.

3 days ago, Substance posted a link and article showing that the Xbox 360 (according to Microsoft) has sold 78.2 million. According to the quote from Jack back in February, he thought the PS3 was at about 77 million. That is 4-5 months ago. I am guessing the PS3 probably sold more than 1.2 million unit worldwide since Jack's quote during that 4-5 month window.

I wouldn't be surprised if the PS3 was ahead right now. But we don't have any official numbers for the debate.

3 days ago, Substance posted a link and article showing that the Xbox 360 (according to Microsoft) has sold 78.2 million. According to the quote from Jack back in February, he thought the PS3 was at about 77 million. That is 4-5 months ago. I am guessing the PS3 probably sold more than 1.2 million unit worldwide since Jack's quote during that 4-5 month window.

You are right and the PS3 could be ahead. But unless I have numbers backing it up, I'm not gonna say it's ahead.

According to Microsoft, 107,000 Xbox 360s were sold in the U.S. in July, “making July the 31st consecutive month Xbox 360 was the best-selling console” in the States. Overall, $178 million was spent on Xbox 360 hardware, software and accessories in the U.S. in July.

Total new physical software sales were up 21 percent in August, according to industry tracking firm The NPD Group.
Games like Madden NFL 25 and Saints Row IV helped increase software sales to $293.4 million compared to $237.9 million in 2012. That helped total sales grow by 1 percent from $516.3 million in August 2012 to $521 million. New console sales were down 40 percent from $150.8 million to $90.8 million.
“August 2013 retail video game grew a modest 1 percent over August 2012 as growth in software and accessories offset soft hardware sales as we near the launch of the Xbox One and PS4,” NPD analyst Liam Callahan said in a statement. “Excluding January 2013, which was up due to an extra reporting week versus January 2012, the last time overall retail video game sales — hardware, software, and accessories — were up year over year was October 2011.”
As always, it’s important to remember that The NPD Group is only tracking the sales of new physical video games at brick-and-mortar retail outlets. It does not track sales of games on Steam or Amazon.Software

Madden NFL 25 (Xbox 360, PS3)

Saints Row IV (Xbox 360, PS3, PC)

Disney Infinity (Xbox 360, Wii, PS3, Wii U, PC)

Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell: Blacklist (Xbox 360, PS3, Wii U, PC)

Minecraft (Xbox 360)

Mario & Luigi: Dream Team (3DS)

NCAA Football 14 (Xbox 360, PS3)

Payday 2 (Xbox 360, PS3)

Final Fantasy XIV Online: A Realm Reborn (PS3, PC)

Pikmin 3 (Wii U)

“Video game retail software sales had their first positive month, up 23 percent, since November 2011,” said Callahan. “This was driven by the shift of Madden into the August data month and other launches such as Saints Row IV, Disney Infinity, and Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell: Blacklist. In fact, eight of the top 10 games this month were launched in August.”
Those new launches had a huge positive effect on sales. In fact, collectively, August 2013 launches composed 58 percent of all sales for August.
“Xbox 360 and PS3 software sales combined to grow over 50 percent and are now only down only one percent year to date,” said Callahan. “This is remarkable considering how close we are to the launch of their successors, the Xbox One and PS4.”
Nintendo exclusives had a strong month. Mario & Luigi made an impressive debut on the 3DS, and Pikmin 3 even placed despite the low customer base for the Wii U.
“Further demonstrating the strength of the launch-heavy top 10 ranking, the top 10 games in August 2013 sold more than double the sales than the top 10 games in August 2012.”
Finally, Callahan notes that the PS3 role-playing game Tales of Xillia only just missed the top list.Hardware

As we expected, the 3DS and the Xbox 360 were the big winners.
“Nintendo’s 3DS continued to outsell other hardware platforms for the fourth month straight,” said Callahan. “The Xbox 360 was the top selling console for the month, which was the thirty-second consecutive month it has led console sales.”
Microsoft revealed that the Xbox 360 sold 96,000 units in August.
Regardless, hardware sales are in a rut as gamers prepare for the next-gen consoles. Sony announced plans to release PlayStation 4 on Nov. 15. Microsoft will follow a week later with the Xbox One on Nov. 22.
“We hope to see hardware sales improve with the launch of the Xbox One and PS4 in November,” said Callahan.
Sony and Nintendo did not provide a response to a request for its sales figures.

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